# Werewolf a game Part 2 (this time with MAFIA!) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 26, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565 "2007-03-26T16:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 28
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/541 "2007-03-29T23:51:53Z")
I was caught off guard by the lynching, partly because of work and other things I was doing last night, and partly because I was taking a bit of a breather because I got REALLY overenthusiastic and game-hyper yesterday. But I’m not joining those calling for a countdown - yet. It’s going to be a long enough game anyway, and a bit of sudden death makes things interesting. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/542 "2007-03-29T23:57:21Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk] I was caught off guard by the lynching, partly because of work and other things I was doing last night, and partly because I was taking a bit of a breather because I got REALLY overenthusiastic and game-hyper yesterday. But I’m not joining those calling for a countdown - yet. It’s going to be a long enough game anyway, and a bit of sudden death makes things interesting. [/QUOTE] I will think about it “tonight” and post a final decision about the countdown with the morning post. I think a bit of a cooldown period may be necessary for those who only have access to the thread for a small portion of the day. But it may be something that I won’t keep in there permanently. I might take it out when the game switches to majority vote to lynch. I will let you know. Until then, opinions are welcome if anyone feels strongly one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/543 "2007-03-30T00:44:26Z")
I would like the countdown. It gives the condemned a chance to talk their way out(what if Enfant Terrible was a Mason? We wouldn’t have had the chance to change our minds). I’m definitely in favour of anything that can reign in overzealous lynch mobs. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/544 "2007-03-30T00:52:28Z")
I’d like to say that I think a countdown is a good idea. Twelve hours should suffice. It is taking a while to read and analyze all these posts, and I can’t be in the thread all the time. ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/545 "2007-03-30T01:03:54Z")
Another vote for the 12 hour countdown. In the last game, **OAOW** was able to talk himself out of a lynching, and rightfully so, in the last game. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMensch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/546 "2007-03-30T01:13:13Z")
And another vote for 12 hour countdowns. As I found out this morning being out west of everybody except **Fern Forest** can leave you a little bit out of the flow. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/547 "2007-03-30T01:24:18Z")
I agree about the 12 hour countdowns. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/548 "2007-03-30T02:01:25Z")
The countdown sounds like a good idea to me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Queuing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Queuing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queuing)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/549 "2007-03-30T02:03:19Z")
[QUOTE=hocow] Another vote for the 12 hour countdown. In the last game, **OAOW** was able to talk himself out of a lynching, and rightfully so, in the last game. [/QUOTE] I believe Sturmhauke saved someone as well, which revealed his seerness, and pretty much clinched the game for the town. So a 12 hour countdown, at least at the beginning when it seems a page an hour is being created is necessary IMO. ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/550 "2007-03-30T02:40:19Z")
12-hour countdown sounds good to me. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/551 "2007-03-30T02:49:40Z")
Vote Tally: 12-hour count down: storyteller0910, Queuing, Fretful Porpentine, Gadarene, Monkey Mensch, hocow, pimaspinner, Rysto, Kat… I’ll cast the lynching 10th vote for 12-hour count down ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/552 "2007-03-30T02:52:00Z")
I vote for a 12 hour countdown as well. When I left for work this morning, I had read up to post 382. I had a bit of a hectic day and didn’t get to check the thread at all. I just now got finished reading it, 168 posts later! I had a few thoughts that I spent part of the day putting together, intending to post them as soon as I got home. Imagine my surprise when I found out I was about 8 hours too late. Ah well, at least **Enfant Terrible** ’s death was not totally in vain. to see \*\*MadTheSwine \*\*and \*\*Winston Smith \*\*together like this, it almost makes the heart leap for joy! ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/553 "2007-03-30T02:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=Gadarene] Hearts, spades, poker, palace? Something else? Pick your poison. [/QUOTE] Hey, them sounds like killer words! 😉 [QUOTE=Rysto] I didn’t want to start a new Sequential Threads thread for this, but this amused me: \*\*Werewolf a game Part 2 (this time with MAFIA!) How quickly everything changes. \*\* [/QUOTE] You mean there’s not a sequential thread going on? I thought there almost always was. Hell, I think that’d be worth it, assuming enough of the dope is following to get it. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/554 "2007-03-30T04:21:48Z")
I’m a teacher and my term finished last week, so I’m on holiday. 🙂 Even so, I missed the lynching! :eek: I don’t know how regular posters could keep up. Also it was very disappointing to see Enfant Terrible offer justification for not being lynched a couple of posts after the deed had been done. ☹ Vote for 12 hour countdown after enough lynching votes received. P.S. Presumably in the later stages with less surviving players, the required number for lynching goes down? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/555 "2007-03-30T04:25:00Z")
[QUOTE=Blaster Master] You mean there’s not a sequential thread going on? I thought there almost always was. Hell, I think that’d be worth it, assuming enough of the dope is following to get it. [/QUOTE] I’m sure there is an accompanying thread strictly for spectators and deceased players. I think Winston Smith confessed to accidently posting in it ( :eek: ). ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/556 "2007-03-30T05:06:07Z")
[QUOTE=MonkeyMensch] And another vote for 12 hour countdowns. As I found out this morning being out west of everybody except **Fern Forest** can leave you a little bit out of the flow. [/QUOTE] I think I might have to start getting up early. There were more posts while I slept then while I was at work and the gym. P.S. I’m using a trick I learned from Calvin & Hobbes. I’ve taken a Halloween mask and am wearing it on the back of my head. That way nobody can tell if I can see them or not. It’s genius. ---
**Author:** ![kivvik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/cdc98d/32.png) [@kivvik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kivvik)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/557 "2007-03-30T07:25:10Z")
**Another vote for the 12-hour Window of Life™**. Give the doomed the time to speak out, role-claim, or at least work up a good set of last words for us! Maybe a death-poem or something? Whatever boats their float. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/558 "2007-03-30T07:41:15Z")
/in real life, once only explanaiton for the doomed\* I am playing a characer in this game. React as you see fit. As per my silence today, I had a 12 hour work day ^^;;;; \*\*\*\*\* /role-play on I suspects everyone who’s too nice or too quiet. My gut is leaning towards Blaster Master latllies, but I gots no solid evidence. I heard about some randoms killler lasts night, and that worrys me the most. Actually that’s not true, I got into a fist fight with my local frat today, and that scares me the most \>\_\<;;; ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/559 "2007-03-30T09:48:02Z")
I’ll take a whisky sour while we’re waiting to find out who’s been murdered. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2007, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565/560 "2007-03-30T09:56:53Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] /in real life, once only explanaiton for the doomed\* I am playing a characer in this game. React as you see fit. As per my silence today, I had a 12 hour work day ^^;;;; \*\*\*\*\* /role-play on I suspects everyone who’s too nice or too quiet. My gut is leaning towards Blaster Master latllies, but I gots no solid evidence. I heard about some randoms killler lasts night, and that worrys me the most. Actually that’s not true, I got into a fist fight with my local frat today, and that scares me the most \>\_\<;;; [/QUOTE] Sheesh. :rolleyes: Your first piece of analysis and you post it in a time when you are forbidden to do so. :smack: Why don’t you read the rules? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565.md?page=27) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/werewolf-a-game-part-2-this-time-with-mafia/397565.md?page=29)